NOAA Hydrographic Survey 2014-2019

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a Master IDIQ for hydrographic survey services on July 1, 2014, with a shared ceiling of $250 million and ordering closed June 29, 2019. This vehicle is no longer active for new task orders.

NOAA issued 45 delivery orders over the vehicle's five-year ordering window, obligating the full $148.5 million combined potential value across the awardee base. Ordering momentum peaked in 2019 with 11 orders before the vehicle expired; prior years averaged 7–9 orders annually. Task orders executed between September 2014 and September 2019, with completion dates ranging primarily from 2015 through 2020. All 45 orders were unrestricted, non-set-aside competitive awards.

Task orders contracted multibeam and side-scan sonar hydrographic surveys of U.S. coastal and port approaches. Recent orders captured the post-Hurricane Dorian response, including surveys off Wilmington and Beaufort, North Carolina ($151.4 thousand); the Southern Chesapeake Bay, Virginia ($3.8 million); and offshore Georgia and Florida ($2.0 million). Larger standing programs included the Louisiana Coast and Mississippi River delta region (Atchafalaya Bay, Port Arthur, Chandeleur Islands, Breton Sound, and Sabine area), which collectively accounted for a substantial portion of awards. Alaska operations (Kuskokwim Bay, Unimak Island, Pavlof Islands, Etolin Strait, and Cape Prince of Wales) represented a secondary geographic concentration. Typical order values ranged from under $200 thousand for emergency or limited-scope surveys to over $7.6 million for larger regional programs, with most orders in the $3–5 million range.

Five firms dominated the vehicle. Terrasond LIMITED and Fugro Pelagos, Inc. held the largest combined potential values at $26.9 million and $26.1 million respectively. Etrac, A Woolpert Company led in order count with 11 awards totaling $20.5 million. Leidos, Inc., Ocean Surveys, Inc., and David Evans and Associates, Inc. each held six orders and approximately $20–26 million in combined value. These five firms captured 82 percent of combined potential value and 80 percent of task orders; eight distinct primes shared the remaining work. NOAA was the sole customer agency across all 45 orders, eliminating any customer-concentration risk but signaling this vehicle was purpose-built for a single agency's operations.